American National Labour Relations Board

[madashell]

http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/worker...s/eye7_2005.cfm (http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_2005.cfm)

It is a regular pastime for co-workers to chat during a coffee break, at a union hall, or over a beer about workplace issues, good grilling recipes, and celebrity gossip. Yet a recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) allows employers to ban off-duty fraternizing among co-workers, severely weakening the rights of free association and speech, and violating basic standards of privacy for America's workers.

So how did the NLRB decide to weaken fundamental workplace protections? Security firm Guardsmark instituted a rule directing employees not to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date, or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees." In September 2003, the Service Employees International Union filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB against Guardsmark, claiming that the company's work rules inhibited its employees' Section 7 rights.
America, land of the free (unless you're poor, black, gay or a woman)

[Ownthink]

Originally posted by [email protected] 9 2005, 04:43 PM
http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/worker...s/eye7_2005.cfm (http://www.americanrightsatwork.org/workersrights/eye7_2005.cfm)

It is a regular pastime for co-workers to chat during a coffee break, at a union hall, or over a beer about workplace issues, good grilling recipes, and celebrity gossip. Yet a recent ruling by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) allows employers to ban off-duty fraternizing among co-workers, severely weakening the rights of free association and speech, and violating basic standards of privacy for America's workers.

So how did the NLRB decide to weaken fundamental workplace protections? Security firm Guardsmark instituted a rule directing employees not to "fraternize on duty or off duty, date, or become overly friendly with the client's employees or with co-employees." In September 2003, the Service Employees International Union filed unfair labor practice charges with the NLRB against Guardsmark, claiming that the company's work rules inhibited its employees' Section 7 rights.
America, land of the free (unless you're poor, black, gay or a woman)
We have a right to be mad as hell, and this is exactly why!

[timbaly]

This is an outrageous ruling that looks like a classic example of unconstitutional actions taken by the federal govenrment. It seems like labor rights are being taken away at a higher rate than ever. Within twenty years I think the United States will look more like the third world than ever before and the rights won in the past century will have corroded into nothingness.